Quick Puff

[Yardbird47@aol.com]

Tom McNeil rote, 4/8/96:
<<I'm getting used to the idea that whenever you get a really weird notion,
it leads to something pretty interesting!>>

Either that or I'm in jails on morals charges. No nothing in particular,
except that recently I've been noticing myself blowing chips out of vital
indexing corners of small jigs. These are situations in which the
milling/drilling make fairly small piles of chips, and where the work and the
jig are small enough that an vacuum/blower intake is too clumsy. Say, hammer
boring or moving the dado on a universal rep.
Newton Hunt recommended the vortex chiller which would be overkill in this
situation. The stock removal is minimal (far below what would result in
heating the tool), and I'm not not worried about whether the torque will drop
from 200-95 "/# in the first week. I'd also like to slim down the duty cycle
on the compressor, from continuous to just a quick well-timed puff.
(Oh all right, you smoked me out, I was making a titanium housing for the
tritium trigger of a firecracker, but don't tell the Feds.)

Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter PTG

"When writing a mental note, first procure a mental piece of paper"
............mental graffitti